High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rush Hour 3 is a 2007 martial arts/action-comedy film, and the third installment in the Rush Hour film series, starring Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan, that began with the 1998 film Rush Hour and continued with the first sequel Rush Hour 2 in 2001. The film was officially announced on May 7, 2006, and filming began on July 4, 2006. The film is set in Paris, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong. Rush Hour 3 was released on August 10, 2007, in USA. Academy Award-winning film director Roman Polanski co-stars as a French police official involved in Lee and Carter's case. Tzi Ma reprises his role as Ambassador Han, Lee's boss and friend who appeared in the first installment. This film has received a M rating by the Office of Film and Literature Classification and a PG-13 rating by the MPAA for "sequences of action violence, sexual content, nudity and language."